On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:57 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > don vogt wrote: > > Background: > > I started with Linux with slackware downloaded on 14 > > (?) floppy disks by ftp from MIT. I changed to Redhat > > and then dropped off Linux to do genealogy for a > > couple of years. (now we have GRAMPS and maybe I > > wouldn't leave Linux today) When I came back, I > > started again with Core 4. I was quite happy with that > > until Legacy went belly up. All I really wanted for > > updates was security updates. I am just a desktop user > > so my needs should be relatively small. I did a yum > > upgrade to core5 with few problems, apparently caused > > by mismatches in repos for xine. > > It sounds to me like FC may not be the best distro for > you. FC has lots of "thrash". If all you want is for > it to "just work", then perhaps CentOS or Debian or > perhaps Ubuntu would be better. Wouldn't it be better if Fedora was right for him? We'd all benefit and that is not a bad thing. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
